The 131 guest rooms display a salmagundi of wallpapers in throwback prints, their moody black, white, and gray palette creating a cool coziness, while a bold mix of graphic patterns and textures echoes the urban vibrancy on the streets outside.

From the Art Students League, where his instructors included Thomas Hart Benton and George Bridgeman and his classmates included Jackson Pollock, to being exhibited in Salmagundi Club and institutional venues, and to Union Square, where he painted,--Joe made his mark in the art world, although not fully recognized or compensated during his lifetime.

He and his team worked with food historians at Hampton Court to bring these long-forgotten dishes to life, and now hundreds of people sit down at lunch and dinner to eat these incredible versions of Elizabethan and Victorian dishes, from salmagundi to 'powdered duck.

In contributing essays and reviews that appeared in the Nation, the New York Times Book Review and the New Republic, as well as in highbrow quarterlies like Partisan Review and Salmagundi, Shechner adopted "the style of brilliance" that Irving Howe attributed in 1968 to "the New York intellectuals.

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